Mr Salmon and Mrs Sparrow

Kate Sweetapple
August 3rd - 27th, 2010

Mr Salmon and Mrs Sparrow by Kate Sweetapple

 

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The maps in Mr Salmon and Mrs Sparrow playfully challenge the perceived authority of conventional information design, addressing the need to be continually aware of maps as social constructions, and to understand the potential of storytelling, in all its forms, through quantitative data.

Through these maps the tension between the scientific and the aesthetic is played out. They are geographically precise and demographically accurate, yet highly idiosyncratic and poetic. The maps reveal a series of contradictions: authoritative cartographic language with 'absurd' data sets; a random flock of birds that has been pedantically plotted; and, an image of the stars which can be read simultaneously as both ground and sky.

This exhibition is part of Sydney Design 2010.

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